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Lorelle Fisher |
| Lorelle has lived at Crystal Waters since 1992. Her passion is educating people of all ages and nationalities in ways of living on the earth in a more environmentally sustainable way. Lorelle and her family live in a rammed earth and timber home based on a solar passive design. The house on one acre is surrounded by, wildlife corridors, a food forest, a citrus orchard, a vegie patch and a natural swimming pond.
She is a registered teacher (Bachelor of Education, Diploma of Teaching) in physical education and science as well as being trained in permaculture principles. In addition, she is a trained massage therapist interested in the holistic well-being of people. Within our eco-village, her energy concentrates also on baking sourdough bread in our community bakery, and helping the village organic farm with its seasonal biodynamic dairy and general store. Each month, she puts together the community news bulletin with a team of other workers. Lorelle directs the activities of the association – these include tours and courses, video-production, building renovation, environmental artistry and information dissemination.
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Les Bartlett |
Les focuses on supporting the development of ethical businesses in the community. He has created the community sourdough bakery which supplies the local bioregion with fresh bread. In addition he has constructed earth ovens in several places around the village. Les is also part of the team putting out the news bulletin on a monthly basis. He has a background in education (Diploma in Teaching). He has also worked in workplace health and safety training and assessment. Les has built a low-cost dwelling and has pioneered the sharing of a block with fellow residents. He also has talents in the field of editing and artistic creativity.
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Ian Dooley |
| Ian created the concept of establishing a not for profit association to support the other organisations governing the community. Along with Lorelle and Les, Ian likes to perform service work in the community. Ian is a university lecturer in the fields of communications and statistics (Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics, Grad Diploma in TESOL, Diploma in Education). He has lived in the community since 1992. Ian completed a permaculture course in the early nineties. He has special interests in the field of performance, having written and performed in cabarets and musicals in the community. Ian is also a qualified English as a Foreign Language teacher who has taught English in China, Cambodia and France. |
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